Specialist Risk & Capital

Specialist – Risk and Capital

• Join a workplace where safety is paramount, collaboration is encouraged, and every voice is valued.
• Enjoy an attractive salary package, annual performance bonuses, and a comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your wellbeing and lifestyle.
• Experience the balance you need with fly-in fly-out (FIFO) opportunities from Perth.

About the role           

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are seeking a Specialist – Risk and Capital to join our Operational Excellence team at Greater Tom Price and Marandoo Operations. This role is ideal for a proactive, people-focused professional passionate about supporting operational leaders, contractors, and frontline teams to drive safety, risk management, and capital excellence.

As part of a supportive and high-performing team, you’ll work closely with the Manager Operational Excellence, contributing to both personal and team development goals.

This position follows a 5 days on / 2 days off / 4 days on / 3 days off roster on-site, giving you more time to spend on the things that are important to you.

Reporting to the Manager Operational Excellence, you will:

• Promote a proactive safety culture — actively communicate and model safety-first behaviours to ensure awareness, compliance, and ownership across all operations.
• Drive continuous improvement — identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities using Rio Tinto best practices to enhance operational performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate effectively — work closely with functional teams and stakeholders to achieve shared goals and optimise outcomes.
• Develop team capability — provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to operational teams, fostering growth and performance excellence.
• Lead capital and risk management — oversee risk and capital processes, remove barriers to execution, and ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Support strategic planning — contribute to business planning cycles by delivering analytical insights on risk, capital, and productivity across operations.
• Strengthen risk integration and assurance — embed risk management into core decision-making, maintain risk registers, and coordinate assurance activities to enhance governance.
• Champion governance and change management — oversee capital portfolio governance, Management of Change (MoC) compliance, and build leadership capability in risk and capital management.

What you’ll bring

• A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence (Manual)
• A business, finance, engineering or other technical degree is advantageous
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management skills and ability to work autonomously whilst influencing leaders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and advanced MS office knowledge
• Previous experience in risk management, sustaining capital, engineering or accounting preferred
• Demonstrates understanding of relevant legislation, Rio Tinto systems, governance frameworks and assurance requirements

If you’re excited by the opportunity but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply — your passion and potential could make you the perfect fit.

What we offer  

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. 
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto 
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus 
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family 
• Attractive share ownership plan 
• Company provided insurance cover 
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave) 
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them 
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.

Where you will be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

Applications close on 11 November 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date) #gts

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

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